Arrow's January/February Lineup Part I

Overview:
Brian De Palma’s inspired rock’n’roll fusion of Faust, The Phantom of
the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray boasts an Oscar-nominated score
by Paul Williams, who also stars as an evil record producer who not
only steals the work of composer/performer Winslow Leach (William
Finley) but gets him locked up in Sing Sing - and that’s not the worst
that happens to him along the way.

Few revenge scenarios have ever been so amply justified, but the film is
also constantly aware of the satirical possibilities offered by the
1970s music industry, exemplified by Gerrit Graham’s hilariously camp
glam-rock star. Jessica Harper (Suspiria) appears in her first major
role as the naïve but ambitious singer, on whom Winslow secretly dotes.

Prodigiously inventive both musically and visually, this is one of De
Palma’s most entertaining romps, not least because it was so clearly a
labour of love.

Special Features:
-New high definition digital transfer
-Newly commissioned artwork
-Collector’s booklet
More to be announced!

The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s
delicious, low in calories and – better still – doesn’t stain the family
carpet… What’s not to like?! Well, for a start it has a life of its
own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria…

Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff – in
fact he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding
crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The
Stuff has started acting really weird... Now, teaming up with
wise-cracking industrial saboteur “Mo”, Jason must put a stop to The
Stuff and the organisation behind it or face a gooey, gloopy demise.

Coming courtesy of horror auteur Larry Cohen (director of the It’s Alive
series and scribe behind the Maniac Cop trilogy), The Stuff is a
titillating treat for the taste-buds which blends elements of films such
as Street Trash with the straight-up B-movie flavour of The Blob. So
grab a spoon and dig on into The Stuff – the taste that delivers… much
more than you bargained for!

Overview:
With the 20th Century drawing to a close, nuclear war has wiped out
civilization as we know it. The embattled human race’s last remaining
hope lies with one man and his loaded weapon.

Sam Hell may be an ex-con, but he also happens to be one of the last
surviving fertile men on the planet. Now, under the custody of a group
of feisty female fighters, Sam finds himself enlisted on a mission to
impregnate a harem of beauties. Sounds cushy enough, but the ladies in
question are prisoners of Frogtown – home to a gang of mutant (and
ill-mannered) amphibians!

Starring wrestler-turned-actor Rowdy Roddy Piper, known to John
Carpenter enthusiasts for his body-slamming and bubblegum-chewing antics
in They Live, Hell Comes to Frogtown is unashamedly a B-movie through
and through with more guns and girls than you can shake a frog’s leg at.

Legends abound of ‘The Hellgate Hitchhiker’. So the story goes, a
beautiful young woman was once brutally defiled and murdered by a biker
gang. Now, returned from the dead, she wanders the roadside luring
unsuspecting motorists to their doom…

Refusing to heed the warnings of locals, a group of college friends set
out on a cross-country road trip looking for fun and frolics. But they
get much more than they bargained for when they wind up in the abandoned
mining town of Hellgate and hemmed in by hordes of the undead!

Providing gore and gags in equal measure, Hellgate recalls the good old
days of early 90s fright flicks and challenges other gleefully twisted
flicks such as Re-animator and Return of the Living Dead for sheer
grisly delirium!

Special Features:

-High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the main feature
-Road to Perdition, B-Movie Style: An extensive interview with Hellgate director William A. Levey
-Alien Invasion, Blaxploitation and Ghost-Busting Mayhem: Scholar,
Filmmaker and fan Howard S. Berger reflects on the intriguing film
career of William A. Levey
-Video Nasty: Kenneth Hall, writer of the Puppet Master series, speaks
about the direct-to-video horror boom that allowed Hellgate to become a
classic of the cassette rental era
-Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
-Collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by Lee Gambin, illustrated with original artwork and stills

Overview: THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HUNTER AND A KILLER …IS HIS PREY

A serial killer is on the loose in and around the small community of
Globe, Arizona, and housewife Joan White (Cathy Moriarty) gradually
comes to suspect that her opera-loving hi-fi engineer husband Paul
(David Keith) might know more than he’s letting on...

So far so familiar, but in the hands of British visionary Donald Cammell
(who wrote and co-directed Performance with Nicolas Roeg), the film
becomes a dazzling kaleidoscope of images and ideas, spanning everything
from Apache folklore, desert landscapes and stylish murder set-pieces
that recall Dario Argento to a painfully vivid dissection of the
emotional fissures undermining a modern marriage. It’s all set to an
equally eclectic score co-written by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason.

Described by the distinguished critic David Thomson as "one of the great
secret works in cinema", White of the Eye is one of the most bizarre
and unforgettable thrillers ever made.

Overview:
Following difficulties in his career Mario Bava happened across an idea
that would enable him to compete with the younger directors lighting up
the Italian box office such as Dario Argento and Sergio Martino.

Rabid Dogs begins as $70,000 of wages are being transferred when the
Ajaccio gang hit. With a hail of bullets in a quick raid they speed off
in their waiting getaway car. Tough, violent and realistic, Bava’s film
ramps up the tension and doesn’t stop as hostages are added and the film
builds to its dizzying finale.

Unfolding in real time, a rare device seen only in earlier films such as
High Noon and 12 Angry Men yet totally unheard of in Italian cinema at
the time, Rabid Dogs is a singular film in Bava’s filmography and one of
the greatest crime films of the period.

SPECIAL 3-DISC EDITION FEATURES:
-High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD
presentation of two versions of the film; ‘Rabid Dogs’ – Bava’s original
version posthumously completed from his notes & ‘Kidnapped’ – the
re-edited, re-dubbed and re-scored version, supervised by Bava’s son and
assistant Lamberto Bava and producer Alfredo Leone
-Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both versions
-Audio Commentary with Bava biographer and expert Tim Lucas
-End of the Road: The Making of Rabid Dogs – A documentary featurette
including interviews with Lamberto Bava, Alfredo Leone and star Lea
Lander
-Original Trailer
-Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Stephen
Thrower, a history of the multiple versions of the film from Semaforo
Rosso to Rabid Dogs to Kidnapped by Peter Blumenstock, illustrated with
original stills and posters
-Much more to be announced!